Clip



Aug. 14, 1934. M. GlESlNG ER 1,970,450

CLIP

Filed Feb. 7, 1930 zglgwwzw as as Z335 'INVENTOR 12 a-w- W :5? 7a 11 09 ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 14, 1934 7 our Mathilde Giesinger, New York, N. Y.

' Application February '7,

1930, Serial No. 426,511

8 Claims. (01. 24 15 1) can be readily replaced, without sewing or buttoning operations.

Second, to provide means removably to fasten a dress shield in any garment, obviating special provisions in such garments for the removable attachment of a dress shield.

Third, to provide provisions for securely and removably fastening dress shields in garments, the fastening means being prevented from inconveniencing the wearer and said means also al-' lowing the garment to extend and fall freely, the

garment fitting the body of the user in the usual manner.

Fourth, to provide fastening means for a dress .shield, said fastening means being adapted to securely hold a dress shield in a garment at a point where said garment extends furthest into the arm pit, and said fastening means being invisible.

Fifth, to provide means for fastening a dress shield upon a garment, said means being adaptable to a sleeveless garment as well as to a garment provided with a sleeve,

' With these and other objects in view I have V developed my invention which is described in the accompanying text and illustrated in the drawing, in which,

i Figure'l shows a side view of the waist and sleeve of a garment, said garment being sectioned so that the inside of said garment is seen and so that a double dress shield is exhibited in position.

Figure 2 shows, in a side view, fastening means which I embody in dress shields to permit the attachment to a gown.

Figure 3 shows in a sectional View a double dress shield, one half of which extends flatly, whereas the other half is turned back and exhibits the fastening means forming part of said 7 dress shield.

' Figure 4 shows a side view of the inside of part of a sleeveless dress, to which a single dress shield is attached, said dress shield incorporating the fastening means of Figure 2.

Figure 5 shows a part of a sleeve dress to which a "dress shield is shown partly attached in a folded back position. This view shows the use of a modification of the fastening means.

Figure 6 shows a separate view of the fastening means which form part of the shield shown i Figure 5.

Figure 7 shows a side view of the inside of part of a sleeveless dress, to which a single dress shield is attached, said dress shield incorporating another modification of fastening means.

Figure 8 shows a separate view of the fasten- 5 ing means forming part of the single dress shield of Figure 7.

Figure 9 shows, in a separate view, anothermodification of fastening means.

Figure 10 shows a double dress shield in a folded back position, the fastening means of-Figure 9 forming part thereof.

Figure 11 shows a section of a single dress shield, a special kind of fastening means forming part thereof.

Figure 12 shows a separate, perspective View of the fastening means used in connection with the single dress shield of Figure 11.

Figure 13 shows a modification of the fastening means of Figure 2. 30

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the various views.

The gown, of Figure 1 shows a waist part 15 of a garment which has an open neck 16 and to which a sleeve 17 is attached in a seam 18 extending around the arm hole in said waist. A dress shield 19 is insertedinto the arm hole and it comprises a flap 20 which is disposed upon the inside of the waist and a flap 21 which is disposed in the sleeve 17. This dress shield 19 is reproduced, in an enlarged,sectional'view, in Figure 3. 1

I The dress shield of Figure 3' is folded open along. the fold inwhichthe crescent flaps 20 and 21 connect with each other. The clips 22 form part of this dress shield and may be best described from the separate View of Figure 2.

The clips 22 are made of a piece of wire with a pointed end 23, said wire being bent into the shape of Figure 2. From the back 24 of the clip 22 is looped back thereupon, by means of a short bend m 25, the holding part 26 thereof. The end section 2'7 of theholding part is disposed at an angle towards the back 24, so that the very end of the holding part rests upon the back 24. From the other end of the back 24 of the clip 22 extends 105 upwardly, at an acute angle, the piercing part 28 of the clip, the end portion 29 of which is downwardly disposed, so that it rests upon the loop between the back 24 and the holding part 26 at a point very close to the pointed end of portion position of rest against the loop 25 of the clip.

J seam 18 and travels upon the inside of said seam similarclips are fastened upon the double shields 29, said pointed end extending to a very short distance beyond said loop. The shape of clip 22 indicated in Figure 2 is substantially the shape which said clip assumes after it has been made part of a shield 19 as shown in Figure 3. The back 24 of the clip 22 is disposed upon the outside of the shield 19 near the fold 30 between the flaps 20 and 21 and the back 24 of the clip can therefore not be seen in the drawing. But the loops on both ends of part24 extend through the dress shield 19, so that the parts 26, 2'7, 28 and 29 of the clip are visibly disposed on the inside of the shield. The holding part 26 of the clip is compressed towards the back 24 during the operation of assembling the clip upon the dress shield, so. that the end part 2'7 of the holding part 26 firmly lodges in the dress shield, clamping said dress shield onto the back 24.

When the user of the dress shield desires to fasten it upon .a dress, the flaps 20 and 21 of the dress shield are bent apart and the user slides the clip over the seam 18 of a' dress like the one shown in Figure'l at the point where the dress shield is to be fastened. The point 23 extending beyond the loop of'the clip engages upon the along the whole distance of the piercing part 28, the point 23 possibly emerging from said seam near the end of the piercing part, by piercing the garment a second time and returning to its The clip 22 on the other end of the shield is fastened upon the garment at a suitable distance from the first clip'by a similar operation so that eventually the dress shield is disposed in the waist and sleeve as shown in Figure 1.

In Figure 4 I show a single dress shield 31 of crescent shape. Near the upper concave edge ofsuch a dress shield the clip 22 is "made part thereof in a'manner similar to that in which 19 of Figure 3. The clip 22 is fastened upon the shield at such a distance from the'upper concave edge of the single shield 31, thatthe piercing part of the clip extends substantially in alignment with said upper part, when pressed fiat onto said shield. This single dress shield 31 is fastened upon the axillary part of a dress or upon the seam 32 extending around the arm hole of a sleeveless dress 33 in the same manner in which a double shieldis fastened upon the seal n18 of would therefore be practically unnoticeable.

5, preferably by being sewed thereonto by stitches the dress of Figure 1. The piercing part 28 of theclip is practically hidden within the seam 23 of the dress the sideof the dress which is seen, (that is the back of the view of Figure 4, not showing'any part ofthe shield or the fastening means) Even if a sleeveless gown should not be provided with any seamaround the arm hole, only a short extent of the piercing part 28 of the clip will show upon the-outside of a gown, and it For claritys sake the clip of Figure 6 is shown in an open position, whereas normally the shanks 35 and 36 thereof are tensionally retained in a position as close to each other 'as' allowed by the loop 3'7 at the end of leg 35 resting'in the loop 38 provided'on the leg'36. At a point 39 at which the legs 35 and 36 are connected, the clip 34 is fastened upon the double dress shield 19 of Figure 40 near the fold 30. The clip 34 is fastened upon the axillary part of the gown 41 by sliding the gown between thetwo legs 35 and 36 'of the clip, the leg 36 resting against the axillary waist part,

t whereas the leg 35 is disposed in the sleeve. The

gown is wedged between the loops 3'7 and 38 of the clip 34 and will therefore securely retain the dress shield 19 which the clips 34 form part of.

The clip 42 of Figure 8 is again shown, for claritys sake, in a partly open position, whereas the looped end 43 of said clip is tensioned in the direction of the twisted part 44 of said clip and is firmly retained upon the single dress shield 31 of Figure '7 because the dress shield is wedged between said end 43 and said twisted part 44 of the clip 42. Above the twisted part of the clip the two free ends 45 and 46 are forked apart in the shape and the respective pointed ends 47 and 48 'are bent outwardly so as to be substantially c0- clamped onto the dress shield, one leg of the forked part of clip 42 is retained upon the dress shield by being sewed thereto (stitch 49). The clip is made part of the single dress shield in sucha manner that the coextensive pointed ends 47 and 48 of the forked legs 45 and 46 are substantially in alignment with the upper, concave edge 50"of the single dress shield; To fasten the dress shield of Figure '7 upon the seam 32 of a gown 33, the user presses the free legs 45' and46 of the clip towards each other, at the same time pressing the pointed ends 47 and 48 onto the seam 32'of the dress, so that the pointed ends 4'7 and 48 penetrate said seam and are firmly lodged therein, when the user allows those ends to"r'e turn from the compressed position 47a, 48a; to the normal position 47, 48.

It is understood that theclip 42 may rorm'pa'rt of a double dress shield in the same mannr'in which it forms part of the single dress shield 31. 110 The parts 44, 45, 46, 4'7 and 48 are in that casedisposed upon the inside of the dress'shield l9,'between the flaps 20 and 21, the coextensive pointed ends 4'7 and 48 being disposed close to, and substantially in line with, the fold'30. The clip 42 pierces the double dress shield between the twisted part 44 and the looped end 43 and the looped end 43 is disposed upon the outside of one of the flaps, preferably the flap 20. i

The modified clip 58 shown in Figures Hand 12 is retained near the edge of the shield 31 by being clamped thereonto, the shield being disposed between the back 59 and the free ends 6O of the wire making up said clip. A loop 61 is bent back'onto the back 58 of the clip; the seam of the gown, upon which the dress shield of Figure 11' is clamped, is retained in the loop 62 of the, clip 58, after the loop 61 has been slippedand snapped over said seam.

The clip' 51 'of Figures 9 and 10 shows a very' slight modification of the clip 22 shown in Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4. The back 24 of the clip 22 of Figure 2 is, in the modification of Figure 9, replaced by two straight sections 52 and 53 between which there is a hump in the wire, against the highest part of which the piercing part 28 is tensionally retained in a position of rest. The short end 55 of the wire is bent back onto the portion 53 of the back and serves to clamp the shield.

In Figure 10 I show the clip of Figure. 9 attached to a double shield. The wire penetratesthe, shield four times, so that the portions 52 and 53 are on the outside of the shield, whereas theclamped part, the end 55, shows on the inside of the shield, said shield being pressed between that end and between the portion 53; the hump 54 shows on the inside of the shield; and also the piercing part 28 is seen on the inside of the shield. r

The pointed end 23 of'the' clip 51 extends'fr'ee 150 so that it can readily be hooked into the axillary edge of a dress. But it is downwardly disposed and protected by the end 55 of the wire located in front thereof, so that the pointed end 23 of the wire cannot hurt the wearer of the shield.

It is noted that in most modifications of the clip I show a clamping action of the clip, the cloth of the axillary part of the dress being clamped between wires which are tensioned towards each other. This also applies to the clips of Figures 2, 8 and 9, although these clips are hooked onto the axillary part of the dress by a piercing operation. Clampedly retaining the dress in a fixed position prevents it from sliding back and forth along the clip.

This clamping action of the clip is accentuated in the design 63 of Figure 13. In this design 63 the holding part 26, extending upward from the back of the clip 22 of Figure 2 is replaced by a normally closed helix, the two loops 64 and 65 extend close to each other and the end portion 29 of the clip is tensionally at rest in the substantially V-shaped groove between the said two loops. The pointed end 23 of the clip extends slightly beyond the pigtail, so that the dress may be readily engaged thereby. But after the dress has been engaged upon the end portion 29 of the clip, it slides between said end portion and the loops 64 and 65, and it will be held more or less tightly between said three parts of the pin according to whether the tension with which the end portion 29 is downwardly disposed is greater or smaller.

The design of Figure 13 can of course be used in connection with a single as well as with a double dress shield, in the same manner in which all the modifications of clips shown may be used with either type of dress shields. It is also understood that the clips shown in Figures 2, 8, 9 and 13 may be fastened upon and form part of the lower ends of the flaps or flap on a double dress shield or single dress shield, respectively, so that the dress shields may be fastened upon a dress, not only along the axillary edge or fold of said dress, but also below, along or near the convex edge or edges of the dress shield.

I claim:

1. A clip adapted to fasten dress stays to dresses, comprising a back, holding means extending from said back, and a pointed member extending from said back and outwardly resting upon said holding means and tensionally engaged upon said holding means in normally closed relation thereto at a point removed from the pointed end of said pointed member.

2. A clip adapted to fasten dress stays to dresses, comprising a back, holding means extending from said back, and a pointed member extending from said back and tensionally resting upon said holding means in normally closed relation thereto at a point removed from the pointed end of said pointed member.

3. A clip adapted to fasten dress stays to dresses, comprising a substantially straight back, holding means extending from said back, and a pointed member extending from said back and outwardly resting upon said holding means and tensionally engaged upon said holding means in normally closed relation thereto at a point removed from the pointed end of said pointed member.

4. A clip adapted to fasten dress stays to dresses, comprising a back, holding means extending from said back, and a pointed member extending from said back, looped back thereonto and outwardly resting upon said holding means and tensionally engaged upon said holding means in normally closed relation thereto at a point removed from the pointed end of said pointed member.

5. A clip adapted to fasten dress stays to dresses, comprising a wire back, holding means.

loopedly extending from said back in helical formation, and a pointed member extending from said back and outwardly resting upon said holding means in normally closed relation thereto.

6. A clip adapted to fasten dress stays to dresses, comprising a wire back, holding means loopedly extending from said back in helical formation, and a pointed member extending from said back and tensionally resting upon said holding means in normally closed relation thereto.

7. A clip adapted to fasten dress stays to dresses, comprising a wire back, holding means loopedly extending from said back in helical formation, and a pointed member extending from said back and tensionally resting upon said holding means between adjoining convolutions of said helical formation in normally closed relation thereto.

8. A clip adapted to fasten dress stays to dresses, comprising a wire back, holding means loopedly extending from said back in helical formation, and a pointed member extending from said back and tensionally resting upon said holding means at a point removed from the pointed end of said pointed member between adjoining convolutions of said helical formation in normally closed relation thereto.

MATHILDE GIESINGER. 

